Syed Talal Wasim

About Me

I am a PhD student, currently affiliated with the Computer Vision Group at the University of Bonn, Germany. I am supervised by Professor Dr. Jürgen Gall, and am working in the domain of Long-Term Video Recognition and Anticipation.

Previously I was a researcher in computer vision, affiliated with the Intelligent Visual Analytics Lab (IVAL) at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). I was supervised by Dr. Salman Khan.

I completed my master’s degree in Image Processing and Computer Vision (IPCV) funded by the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree (EMJMD) scholarship program. During the master’s program, I was fortunate to have interned at the Empathic Computing Lab supervised by Dr. Mark Billinghurst. I completed my master’s thesis in the CVLAB at EPFL supervised by Dr. Mathieu Salzmann.

I hold an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in computer science, from Habib University in Karachi, Paksitan.

My previous website listing high-school, undrgraduate and graduate courses and projects can be found at talalwasim.weebly.com.

Research Interests

• Computer Vision: image and video understanding, action anticipation, multimodal learning
• Machine Learning: self-supervised learning, out-of-distribution generalization

News

• [Jan. 2024] I started working as a PhD student at the University of Bonn, Germany working on Video Action Anticipation.
• [Oct. 2023] Our paper titled “Hardware Resilience Properties of Text-Guided Image Classifiers” is accepted in NeurIPS 2023.
• [Aug. 2023] Our paper titled “Video-FocalNets: Spatio-Temporal Focal Modulation for Video Action Recognition” is accepted in ICCV 2023.
• [Aug. 2023] Our paper titled “Self-regulating Prompts: Foundational Model Adaptation without Forgetting” is accepted in ICCV 2023.
• [Jun. 2023] Our paper titled “Toward Automatic Typography Analysis: Serif Classification and Font Similarities” is accepted in the Journal of Data Mining in Digital Humanities (JDMDH).
• [Mar. 2023] Our paper titled “Vita-CLIP: Video and text adaptive CLIP via Multimodal Prompting” is accepted in CVPR 2023.
• [Jun. 2022] Our paper titled “Using Facial Micro-Expressions in Combination With EEG and Physiological Signals for Emotion Recognition” is accepted in the Frontiers in Psychology.
• [Apr. 2022] I started working as a researcher at MBZUAI. I was supervised by Dr. Salman Khan, working on multimodal video understanding.
• [Jul. 2021] I was accepted in the ETH Robotics Summer School and Symposium.
• [Jun. 2021] I defended my master’s thesis and graduated from the IPCV master’s program.
• [May. 2021] Our paper on synthetic data for object detection is accepted to CVPR 2021 CV4Animals workshop.
• [Feb. 2021] I started my master’s thesis in the CVLAB at EPFL supervised by Dr. Mathieu Salzmann. I worked on automated typography analysis on figurative content.
• [Jul. 2020] I started a remote research internship at the Empathic Computing Lab supervised by Dr. Mark Billinghurst.
• [Sep. 2019] I started my master’s degree in Image Processing and Computer Vision (IPCV) funded by the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree (EMJMD) scholarship program.
• [Jun. 2019] I completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in computer science. Graduated first in class with the Dean’s Medal.

Publications

Services

Journal Reviewers

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

Conference Reviewers

• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
• Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)

Project Supervision

• Co-supervise undergraduate projects in computer vision at Habib University
• Co-supervise high-school students in Pakistan for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)

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